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...their part, Dole's aides are on guard against any signs of a creeping Kemp takeover of their campaign. Even before Kemp came on, there were occasional tensions between longtime Dole confidants such as Sheila Burke and Roderick De Arment and newer Dole lieutenants, such as Reed, who have worked for Kemp. Reed has tried hard to patch these differences, secretly dispatching Burke and De Arment to pick up Kemp in Texas late last week...
That left Senators Connie Mack of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, plus former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. Dole, who has said frequently that he needed to be comfortable with his running mate, has always liked McCain. But the former Vietnam P.O.W. had his drawbacks, including being a member of the "Keating Five." Campbell is highly popular in the South, but since leaving the governorship he has been chief Washington lobbyist for the insurance industry, the ultimate in Beltway insider jobs...
Bill Clinton's advisers profess to be unconcerned that Kemp's arrival will turn the Dole campaign into a serious threat. While Dole and Kemp were performing their delicate courtship, the Clintons departed for a vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the President will spend this week feigning indifference to the Republican hoopla in San Diego. And Kemp? "We'll kill him on his economic ideas," says a White House strategist. The Clinton campaign was already running TV spots last week blasting Dole's Kemp-flavored tax-cut ideas as a "risky, last-minute scheme that would balloon the deficit...
...Friday night, antennae went up among Dole loyalists at the news that Kemp had already called on John Sears, a powerful strategist for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, to join his team in San Diego. Even Kemp's friend Lott has cautioned Dole that "you'll need to make clear to Jack that there's only one President at a time." Dole is a shrewd enough campaigner to know that. When he called Kemp on Friday, he pointedly recalled an episode from his 1976 experience as Gerald Ford's running mate, when Dole made an unauthorized pronouncement on farm price...
...Kemp get the message? "Jack's got a long history of team sports," says Black, the Dole adviser. "He'll know what to do." True enough, but Kemp was a quarterback. Even on a team, that's a starring position...